Editing INXS (section)

====From "Good Times" to ''Kick''====
{{See also|Kick (INXS album)}}[[File:Michael-hutchence-INXS-1986.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|Lead singer Michael Hutchence in 1986]]
While on an eight-month break before beginning work on a new album, Murphy, their manager, decided to stage a series of major outdoor concerts across Australia, featuring INXS, [[Jimmy Barnes]], [[Models (band)|Models]], [[Divinyls]], [[Mental as Anything]], [[The Triffids]] and [[I'm Talking]].<ref name="Jeff"/> To promote the tour, INXS recorded two songs with [[Jimmy Barnes]] of Cold Chisel: [[The Easybeats]] cover "[[Good Times (The Easybeats song)|Good Times]]" and "Laying Down the Law" which Barnes co-wrote with Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss, Hutchence and Pengilly.<ref name="ASCAP">{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=420342641&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=10&start=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110170203/http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=420342641&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=10&start=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 January 2009 |title=ACE Title Search – 'Laying Down the Law' |publisher=[[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]] |access-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> "Good Times" was used as the theme song for the [[Australian Made]] series of concerts in the summer of 1986–1987.<ref name="Jeff"/> It peaked at No.&nbsp;2 on the Australian charts,<ref name="Kent"/> and months later was featured in the [[Joel Schumacher]] film ''[[The Lost Boys]]'' and its [[The Lost Boys (soundtrack)|soundtrack]],<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r115920|pure_url=yes}} |title=''The Lost Boys'' > Overview |last=LaVeck |first=Theresea E. |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/soundtrack |title=Lost Boys Soundtrack|website=IMDb.com|access-date=27 November 2008}}</ref> allowing it to peak at No.&nbsp;47 in the US on 1 August 1987.<ref name=AMGSingles/><ref name="BillBoard The 80s"/>
After the success of "What You Need" and ''Listen Like Thieves'', the band knew their new material would have to be even better and wanted every song on the album to be good enough to be a single.<ref name="Jeff"/> They recorded ''[[Kick (INXS album)|Kick]]'' in Sydney and Paris, produced by Chris Thomas.<ref name="ARDb"/> According to the 2005 official autobiography, Atlantic Records was not happy with the result; the label offered the band $1&nbsp;million to go back to Australia and record another album, but the band declined.<ref name="s2s" />

Despite Atlantic's protests, ''Kick'' was released in October 1987 and provided the band with worldwide popularity. The album peaked at No.&nbsp;1 in Australia,<ref name="Kent"/> No.&nbsp;3 on the US ''Billboard'' 200,<ref name=AMGAlbums/> No.&nbsp;9 in UK,<ref name="UKCharts"/> and No.&nbsp;15 in Austria.<ref name="AUTCharts">{{cite web|url=http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |title=Discographie INXS |publisher=Austrian Charts Portal |access-date=20 November 2008 |language=de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123101058/http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |archive-date=23 January 2011 }}</ref> It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top 10 US singles: No. 1 single "[[Need You Tonight]]", "[[Devil Inside (INXS song)|Devil Inside]]", "[[New Sensation]]", and "[[Never Tear Us Apart]]".<ref name=AMGSingles/> "Need You Tonight" peaked No.&nbsp;2 on the UK charts,<ref name="UKCharts"/> No.&nbsp;3 in Australia,<ref name="Kent"/> and No.&nbsp;10 in France.<ref name="FRACharts">{{cite web|url=http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |title=Discographie INXS |publisher=French Charts Portal |access-date=20 November 2008 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128074749/http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=INXS |archive-date=28 November 2011 }}</ref> The band toured heavily behind the album throughout 1987 and 1988. The video for the 1987 INXS track "Mediate" (which played after the video for "Need You Tonight") replicated the format of Bob Dylan's video for "[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]", even in its use of apparently deliberate errors. In September 1988, the band swept the MTV Video Music Awards with the video for "Need You Tonight/Mediate" winning in 5 categories.<ref name=BandRoadChronology2>{{Cite book |last=St John |first= Ed |author2=INXS |title=INXS: The Official Inside Story of a Band on the Road |year=1992 |publisher=Mandarin |page=75 |isbn=1-86330-207-7
}}</ref> ''Kick'' was, by far, INXS's best-selling album of all time.

During 1989, Hutchence collaborated with [[Ollie Olsen|Ian "Ollie" Olsen]] on a side project, [[Max Q (Australian band)|Max Q]],<ref name="McF"/> the two had previously worked together on Lowenstein's film ''Dogs in Space''. The rest of the band also took a break to work on side projects, but soon returned to the studio to record their follow-up album to ''Kick''.